Re: FC4 or FC5



Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Alan M. Evans wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:44, Sean wrote:
Hah! What a confused piece of logic that is. The thing that
is really restricting you is the patented priprietary library!

No. Nothing in most proprietary licenses restrict them being linked into
programs containing parts with other licenses. The thing that restricts
this is the GPL. Your statement is patently false.

Incorrect. If you wish to do so, you may freely link a GPL'd work to a
proprietary one. You would not be allowed to redistribute that linked work
though. (You would still be permitted to redistribute the GPL-only component
if it could be reasonably and logically distinct from the proprietary work.)
Remember: The GPL is a copyright license. It only restricts the manners
in which users may modify and/or redistribute a given work. It does *not*
restrict usage. (And, in fact, if it did it would be non-Free.)


Please don't misunderstand. I don't have any real problem with the GPL.
It's just a license. That's ok. I do, however, see quite a few GPL
evangelists running about with a see-no-evil approach to their preferred
license. Stop for a moment and realize that, while the GPL may have some
real advantages, it also has some disadvantages. Pointing out those
disadvantages is not heresy.

Agreed.



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And this may be the very reason why we can not get the drivers for our hardware
distributed with Suse anymore.

If there is no legal way around this, Suse Desktop will be a thing of the past
for the general desktop user (e.g. home user who is not technical).

Suse and other Linux vendors will not have a snow balls chance in you
know where in competing against MS Windows with out drivers.

This would include USB devices as well.




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